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- From: echong@porpoise.ecn.purdue.edu (Edwin Chong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Writing MAC-readable floppies from Sparcstation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.180605.23085@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:06:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com>
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- In article <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com> bienk@erg.sri.com (Marie Bienkowski) writes:
- >I've gotten a number of requests for the answer to the question
- >of whether one can write a floppy using a Sun sparcstation that
- >can then be read by a MAC.
- >
- >The answer is a freeware MAC utility called "suntar" (for "Speranza's
- >untar") that is available from sumex (or umich, I'm told) that runs
- >on the MAC and that will read floppies written using UNIX "tar" or "bar."
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- The Sun Sparcstation is capable of formating and writing to MS-DOS
- formatted diskettes. The Mac is capable of reading/writing from/to
- MS-DOS diskettes, using Apple File Exchange (comes with System 7).
- Why is there a need for Suntar?
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- echong@ecn.purdue.edu
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